Yaffa Krindel was elected as a director on February 12, 2004. She is currently serving as a partner in the Herzlia, Israel office of STAR Ventures, a private venture capital partnership headquartered in Munich, Germany. Ms. Krindel joined Star Ventures in 1997 as the managing partner of Star Ventures in Israel. Before joining STAR Ventures, between 1992 and 1996, Ms. Krindel served as CFO and VP Finance of Lannet Data Communications Ltd., then a publicly traded company in NASDAQ (now part of Avaya Inc. - NYSE: AV), a leader in data communication systems for the enterprise market, then located in Tel Aviv. From 1993 to 1997 she served as CFO of BreezeCOM Ltd. (now part of Alvarion Ltd. - NASDAQ: ALVR), a premier provider of solutions based on Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) Broadband Wireless Access headquartered in Tel Aviv. Prior to joining Lannet, Ms. Krindel held several executive positions in companies and banks in Israel. Ms. Krindel currently serves on the boards of OrSense Ltd., Trivnet Inc., Negevtech Ltd., Siano Mobile Silicon Inc., Alfy Inc. and Broadlight Incorporated. Ms. Krindel has earned an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University and a B.A. in Economics and Japanese Studies from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. |